Research Horizons

Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure

Georgia Tech’s research initiatives in energy and sustainable infrastructure focus on a broad range of challenges involving energy production, conversion, and efficiency; water resource management; infrastructure development; and the issues associated with a changing climate.

Vast seas covered much of the early Earth, and scientists have long debated what kept those seas from freezing. A popular theory is that potent gases such as methane created a thicker greenhouse atmosphere than is required to keep water liquid today.